Malcolm
Coulter, 6, and
his mother, Tammy Jones, with
his new talking
bear, given to
him by the Royal
Canadian Legion
Ladies Auxiliary, Branch 263.
Malcolm was
diagnosed with
a brain tumor
on April 26. His
teddy bear plays
tapes that discuss relaxation
and breathing
techniques that
will help him
through his
chemotherapy
sessions.
See story, p12.

by Ne i l Cor be t t
staff reporter

The cost of renting pool time in
Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge is
on the rise, and the Haney Neptunes
Aquatic Club is asking Maple Ridge
council why.
Antony Cowie, president of the
summer swim club, said staff justify
increases by using comparisons with
the rental rates of pools in neighbouring municipalities.
He questioned whether staff is
“comparing apples to apples.”
He said the Neptunes are the fourth
largest summer swim club in B.C.,
but its facilities aren’t accommodating the team.
“We were not able to host the regional championships in our home
pool last year,” said Cowie, noting the
event had to be taken to Abbotsford’s
outdoor Centennial Pool.

Angel Appleton wants the parks department to
reconsider making a portion of the dikes off-leash
areas to dogs after three of her lambs were attacked.

A woman whose three lambs
were attacked and injured by a
dog says Pitt Meadows council
should reconsider making the
Alouette and Pitt river dikes an
off-leash area.
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dog owner, and said at least one
neighbour has had similar problems,
Appleton lives on the Alouette
River/Pitt River Dike, and it borders her property on two sides.
“I watch the dogs come down the
dike, swim across the ravine and
into my yard, with the owners just
continuing to walk and not care,
or frantically yell at their dogs and
have no control to get them back.”
Her property is fenced and gated,
and it keeps in her great Dane, but

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a dog crawled under the gate and
attacked her livestock.
The dog owner said she lost track
of her pet for about 10 minutes,
and when she found it, it was laying next to an injured lamb. The
lamb was unable to get up, or bear
any weight on its leg.
In total, three young sheep were
bitten.
“My other lamb had a bite on
his face and puncture wound on
his front leg, and the other lamb a
puncture wound on her leg and is
unable to walk,” said Appleton.

“This woman did not apologize,
almost made it seem like it was
no fault of hers, and that my gate
should be lower so dogs can’t get
under.”
Appleton said it must be the responsibility of dog owners to ensure their animals are not going
onto private property and being
a nuisance, or a menace to other
animals.
Not only has she been upset by
the injuring of her animals, Appleton is also financially out of pocket.
See Off-leash, p5

Even if it’s an exotic, hybrid model that sips
only .85 litres of gasoline for every 100 kilometres it rolls down the highway, and does zero to
100 kilometres an hour in five seconds, a model
that almost won the Automotive X Prize competition for fuel efficiency and was developed
by a bunch of Maple Ridge guys.
Future Vehicle Technologies has been in
newspapers, in car shows, the subject of a Discovery channel documentary – and even got on
the front page of Popular Mechanics.
But in the seven years since the eVaro moved
from Parker’s childhood dream to a physical
entity, no one has stepped up with a bag of
money, about $10 million or so, to move it from
prototype to production.
“Canada doesn’t have that many people who
care to invest in cars,” Parker explains.
“If we were in the United States, we’d be well
into production right now.
“Here, people have different thought processes. What I’ve noticed is that investors in
Canada are more interested in how much and
how long,” to wait for a return on investment.
So Parker and his crew have moved on.
Actually, they have moved underground.
It’s now designing and building electric drive
systems for mining vehicles.
The three eVaros are still in the shop but are
now covered by with shop materials and tools
and are now used as test vehicles for new technologies that FVT and its university partners
develop.
“The car is kind of a learning tool,” said Brad
Zimmerman, one of the technical team members who’s turning the research into reality.
“It’s what gave us the education and allows us
to do what we’re doing now. We couldn’t have
done it without the car.”
FVT is now fulfilling a major contract with a
mining equipment company that has a deadline
of the middle of next month. It’s a big contract,
one that has that company supplying electric
drive components to underground crew carriers and equipment vehicles that yields far more
profit margin than the unforgiving automotive
world.
“They haven’t been able to buy an electric vehicle that works underground yet,” says Parker.
“They just haven’t been able to deliver the
battery packs for them, they even try using
long extension cords to power vehicles but that
doesn’t work,” Zimmerman said.
FVT is only one of a few companies in-depth
knowledge of all the components needed to
electrify vehicles.
“All they want to do is go to a company, and
say ‘here’s our vehicle, make it electric, and take
it back,’” said Zimmerman.

George Parker and his group are now designing and building electric drive systems for mining vehicles.
With changes in mine standards, FVT may
have all the work it can handle. The World
Health Organization recently categorized diesel emissions equivalent to asbestos as a cancer
threat, Zimmerman said.
As a result, companies worldwide are trying
to replace at least the smaller diesel vehicles
with electrically powered ones.
“So there’s kind of a big push. Flat out.

“Right now, it’s like treading water
with a brick in your hand.”
George Parker, founder FVT

“Were solving a huge problem for these guys.”
That doesn’t mean the crew of nine are planning their retirement homes on the French
Riviera.
But as of last June, the company started turning a profit.
It’s not easy still. “Right now, it’s like treading
water with a brick in your hand,” adds Parker.
“Are we printing money? No,” said Zimmerman.
“But we are surviving.”
That survival (the company recently relocated from Maple Meadows Business Park to two

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anonymous hangars in Pitt Meadows Regional
Airport) hasn’t all been by wits and determination alone, although that figures large in FVT
DNA.
Thanks to grants and incentives from the federal government’s National Research Council,
FVT leveraged investment money and kept its
doors open for seven years before money started rolling in.
Partnerships with UFV, SFU, UBC and UVic
provide the research talent which FVT then
develops in its shop.
Some of the company’s labour force comes
from the grad students working on new technologies.
“It’s a brilliant program,” Zimmerman said.
“Government will give a lot of money to university, they won’t give it to us.”
Even when the company is in the position to
ramp up its production and hire people, the
government will help out by subsidizing wages
for a period, all with the goal of creating jobs.
In the time it’s taken to grow to profitability,
many other U.S. companies faltered.
“We couldn’t have done this in any other
country.
“It’s the only reason we survived,” says a grateful Zimmerman.
Ian Hand, director of SFU’s Innovation Office, which tries to grow young companies, said
Future Vehicles did the right thing by abandoning its automotive dream and seizing an opportunity elsewhere.

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That’s called a pivot, he said.
“It’s an emerging success story,” said Hand.
The company is extending its financing by leveraging private investment with government
support. Hand said the Canadian government
offers good federal support in the form of
tax incentives for startup companies, that are
needed in this country because there isn’t the
amount of risk capital, compared to the U.S.
Canadian companies also have to focus on
international markets because of the small size
of the domestic market. “The good news is that
Canadians are quite good at this.”
“It’s a good thing. It’s strategic policy in action.”
“It’s an excellent example of determination
and pivoting.”
Meanwhile the cars sit, hidden in the sheds,
covered and surrounded by a bunch of testing equipment, consigned to serve as lab rats
for the latest ideas by the mad scientists forever
tinkering with electric power.
And Parker, the founder of the company,
finds himself increasingly watching from the
sidelines, yet still with dreams for his eVaro that
he designed on a napkin 30 years ago.
“In Italy and places like that, our car would
be a top seller. They’re car people, in England
and Europe.”
“The car will sell, I don’t need anybody to
convince me.”
“The more time goes by, the more I realize
we’re so far ahead of everybody.”

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Car Care
with Cyril Barry

THE ANATOMY OF A
GOOD REPAIR SHOP

You’re new in town and you would like to
find a place that you can trust and take your
vehicles there for service. What criteria do
you use? How do you know if you’ve made
the right choice? Whom do you ask for advice
in choosing a good shop? I will attempt to
answer all these questions for you in the next
few paragraphs.
Criteria: If your shopping by price you need
to stop that! Accept that good vehicle service
is expensive just like everything else related
to driving your wheels. You want to find a
Full Service Certified Repair Facility that
can maintain, diagnose and repair all your
automotive needs, all under one roof. This
saves you time and money, as the shop gets
to know your vehicle(s) and driving habits.
This translates to the ultimate in personal
service tailored to your needs, budget,
timetable and requested level of service. The
most Bang for your Buck!
Right Choice: A good repair shop will live
up to your expectations and more. By more I
mean they will raise your level of awareness
with regards to your vehicle’s needs based
upon your requirements. They will encourage
your questions, give you plain, easy to
understand answers so you can digest and
understand what is going on with your vehicle.
A good shop will inform you how much you
need to spend before they start and make
you sign a work order so that you both have
a commitment of understanding(contract).
You will know what your spending and
what your getting. This eliminates any
misunderstandings, especially useful if
you drop off the vehicle and your spouse
picks it up, or the vehicle is at the shop for
a few days and the shop contact person has
changed due to scheduling of staff. A good
shop will not spend any more of your money
without first contacting you for authorization
to do so. This eliminates any angry or
embarrassing moments when your picking
up your vehicle. Good shops will inform you
of future maintenance or repairs and give you
a timetable and quote so that you can budget
for it, they will send you a service reminder if
you desire.
Whom do you ask? First and foremost you
ask the people you encounter in your daily
routines. Word of mouth is the best form of
recommendation. Ask someone you know
in a related business, but do it off the job. In
other words don’t phone the towing company
and ask them who the best shop is. They deal
with all of them so they can’t really answer
that question. But if you happen to run into
someone who works on the parts counter
of auto parts store, they’re a good source of
reference. Good luck and by all means if you
have any questions, just give us all call. We’re
one of the good ones.

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Two ambulances
are based in
Maple Ridge 24
hours a day, as
well as one public
response unit.
Average response
time for an ambulance is about 11
minutes.
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Ambulance crews are
hanging around the
emergency department
longer this year than
last, waiting for beds at
Ridge Meadows Hospital so their patients can
be admitted.
According to the B.C.
Ambulance
Service,

in March of this year,
crews spent a total of
24 hours waiting with
patients before they
could be admitted.
That’s a 149-per-cent
increase above the 9.8
hours spent waiting in
March 2012.
Superintendent Lisa
Crowder shared the
details during an update at Maple Ridge
council’s Monday committee meeting, while
director of operations
Tim Philley said B.C.
Ambulance
meets

regularly with Fraser
Health about the issue.
Mayor Ernie Daykin
wanted to know why
wait times have increased and said later
it could be a matter of
creeping up to previous wait times, following reductions made
after the opening of the
new emergency department.
Crowder said the
length of delays are determined by the number of beds available.
And while wait times

have climbed in Maple
Ridge, they’ve dropped
throughout the Fraser
Health region as whole.
Ambulance
crews
spent a total of 431
hours
waiting
to
offload patients last
March, down from 598
hours in March 2012 –
a 28-per-cent drop.
B.C.
Ambulance
figures show that, in
2011-12,
ambulance
crews responded to
an average of 16 calls
(911) a day in Maple
Ridge, a jump of six per
cent from the year before.
In the same time period, Maple Ridge had
3,600 urgent Code 3
calls, while Pitt Meadows had 700.
Two ambulances are
based in Maple Ridge
24 hours a day, as well
as one public response
unit. Average response
time for an ambulance
is about 11 minutes.
When statistics for all
of B.C. are considered,
the number of calls
has stabilized. About
30 per cent of all calls
for ambulances are for
emergencies, while the
rest are for medical
transfers.
A dispatch system allows for creating waiting lists for less-urgent
calls in order to give
priority to emergencies, thus minimizing
the number of ambulances responding to
critical incidents with
lights and sirens.
The longer ambulance drop-off times in
March, though, could
be a statistical blip.
Tasleem Juma, with
Fraser Health, said
emergency room visits can spike during
March.
“We’ve seen, anecdot-

ally, any time there’s
spring break … we usually see an increase in
emergency department
visits.”
That’s because many
family doctors are out
of town, forcing people
to go to the hospital to
treat their ailments.
When the long-term
average wait times
are considered, Ridge
Meadows Hospital has
reduced its wait times
for ambulance dropoffs thanks to its new
Rapid
Assessment
Zone – which speeds
emergency treatment
for minor ailments
without having to admit patients.
“That certainly has
speeded up the process
of patients through
the emergency department,” Juma said.
Apart from March –
which saw more than
a doubling of the average “off-load delay”
time from 18 to 48
minutes compared to
March 2012 – January,
February and April all
showed drops in the
average
ambulance
wait times when compared with the same
month in 2012.
In February this year,
the average wait time
for dropping off a patient and allowing ambulance crews to get
back on the road was
cut in half, from 48
to 24 minutes, and in
April, from one hour to
36 minutes.
And for the Fraser
Health region overall,
off-load delays have decreased by 28 per cent
since March 2012.
“I was really pleased
when I looked at the
longer term data that
showed a decrease,”
Juma said.

Metering residential
water use cuts consumption by up to 30 per cent
across Canada.
On the rainy West
Coast, though, it’s not as
certain that the money
spent installing water
meters will be paid back
in the value of water
saved.
A Maple Ridge report
Monday said that four
cities in the Vancouver
area with metered residential water showed no
reduction in water consumption.
“Despite all the in-

creases in metering, the
people who did install
the meters are doing
about the same,” utility
engineering manager Joe
Dingwall told council.
Water use can be affected by local climate
and
socio-economic
conditions.
Maple Ridge currently
meters water use by
commercial users and
multi-unit
residential
buildings, but not individual homes.
However, all new
homes for several years
have been built with meter boxes.
Despite the lack of
metering single family homes, water use has

been decreasing. Lowflow toilets, lawn sprinkling regulations and
efficient appliances have
reduced consumption,
to the point that overall
water use in 2011 is similar to the volume used in
2001, despite a 20-percent population growth.
Dingwall
crunched
the numbers and said
Maple Ridge would have
to acheive a 30-per-cent
reduction in water use

in order to pay for the
$22-million cost of installation of meters in the
remaining 14,000 single
family homes.
The 30-per-cent reduction factors in a 10-percent decrease in water
use as a result of waterefficient appliances.
Dingwall also pointed
out a perplexing situation in which decreasing water use in Metro
Vancouver could lead

to higher water rates to
make up revenue shortfalls.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities
says that universal water metering can reduce
water use by between 15
and 30 per cent.
Maple Ridge’s 70,000
residents get their water
from Metro Vancouver’s
Coquitlam Lake Reservoir.
According to the 2011

Environment Canada
Municipal Water Use
Report, Maple Ridge
has the third highest per
capita water use in Metro
Vancouver, at about 330
litres per capita per day.
Only West Vancouver,
at about 440 litres per
capita per day, and Delta,
at about 360 litres per
capita per day, use more
water than Maple Ridge
residents.
Coun. Mike Morden
suggested that Maple
Ridge consider installing
water meters in homes
where people repeatedly

violate sprinkler regulations.
Dingwall said West
Vancouver recently metered most of its homes,
resulting in a 25-per-cent
reduction in water use.
The City of North Vancouver and Coquitlam
have the lowest water
use, with the latter using
just more than 200 litres
per capita per day. The
Coity of North Vancouver used kust under 200
litres per capita per day.
The average consumption in Metro Vancouver
is 365 litres.

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He said Paralympic silver medallist Nathan Stein is
from Maple Ridge, but the national media reported
him as being from Surrey, because that is where he is
forced to train.
Neptunes water polo players cross the Golden Ears
Bridge four times per week to train in Langley and
Surrey pools.
The club will host a Canada Day water polo tournament next month, but Cowie told council “half of our
water polo players won’t participate because we cannot have under-16 competition in the shallow pool.”
The new hourly rental fee for Hammond Pool and
Harris Pool, beginning Jan. 1, 2014, will be $26.75 for
youth/senior non-profit, $40.13 for adult non-profit,
$66.88 for private and $70.54 for commercial.
Over two years, there has been a considerable increase. The youth non-profit rate was $19.16 in 2012,
and the private rate was $55.47.
The fee for the indoor competition/teaching/leisure
pools in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows is billed per
lane, and is $9.88 for youth/senior non-profit, $14.82
for adult non-profit, $24.70 for private and $31.38 for
commercial.
The rate was $5.31 per lane for youth/senior nonprofit through 2012.
What neighbouring facilities were surveyed, and
what are their rates, Cowie asked council.
He was told that Kelly Swift, general manager of
community development, parks and recreation services, would answer his questions.
Since then, the club has been in discussions with the
district, and had no further comment on the issue.
With the proposed increases in facility rental rates
for 2014, the district expects to generate an additional
$17,000 in admission revenue and $20,000 in rental
income.

‘Dikes not controlled enough’
Off-leash from front

The dog owner left her name and number, but so far
it has been no use in recovering Appleton’s veterinary
bills. She called an on-call emergency vet to check on
her injured animals, and incurred a $241 cost. She
feels it is the responsibility of the owner of the loose
dog. The dog owner has not answered her phone, or
returned the call.
“This woman was a very irresponsible owner who
took no accountability for her dog’s actions.”
Another neighbour has had her dogs attacked by aggressive dogs running loose.
Appleton has two young boys, and questions whether their safety is at risk in their own yard.
Earlier this month, council approved a 5.8-km section of trails stretching from the Pitt River Bridge to
the north end of Harris Road as an off-leash area.
One of the reasons for designated off-leash areas is
to keep dogs out of children’s playgrounds and parks.
Council also asked staff to educate dog owners, and
add more garbage cans and signs to the area.
Appleton said a more enclosed area is needed.
“To avoid situations like what happened to my lambs
last night, dikes are not a controlled enough environment for off-leash areas,” said Appleton. “That’s why
we have dog parks in closed, gated parks.”

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Kids are where?
Back in the olden days, as is said, a voice
would take control of television sets at precisely
10 p.m. and ask viewers: “Do you know where
your children are?”
That question is more relevant than ever following allegations of a disturbing crime at a
weekend bush party in Kamloops.
According to RCMP, more than 1,000 youths
converged at a popular party spot in Barnhartvale, where a 17-year-old girl was sexually assaulted.
Investigators believe someone may have witnessed what occurred and taken photos or video of it.
If so, police are hoping such images are turned
in to them to assist the investigation, rather
than shared online or by test messaging.
The crime itself is horrific and the person
who committed it should face the harshest sentence available in our justice system.
The fact a teenager’s life has been irrevocably
altered should serve as a reminder to all – parents in particular – that predators know where
and when to act.
A bush party in the middle of nowhere, featuring a thousand kids and booze and drugs?
We cannot think of a more dangerous place
for young people to be.
Last year, a similar massive outdoor party in
the Barnhartvale area resulted in a vehicle hitting a girl, sending her to hospital with a broken
pelvis. Another girl had a liquor bottle smashed
over her head.
And, believe it or not, parents were actually
driving their kids to these parties.
Nothing good can come of a thousand kids in
the woods with booze and drugs.
Nothing.
This tragic crime on the weekend, and others
like it, should be more than enough to have every parent tighten that leash on their teens, regardless of whether ‘everybody else is doing it.’
– Black Press

s it safe?
In The Marathon
Man, Dr. Szell is
a Nazi dentist who
tortured Jews.
‘The White Angel’
spared those with
diamonds.
Szell’s brother keeps
the gems in New
York, where holocaust
survivors live.
When he dies, Szell Along the Fraser
shaves his white hair, Jack Emberly
and slips from his
jungle hideout to get them.
Because the Angel fears the CIA will
steal the diamonds, he kidnaps the
brother of an agent.
‘Babe’ must know something.
Before drilling a healthy tooth, Szell
asks, “Is it safe?”
Babe doesn’t know. He runs marathons.
“Yes, it’s safe,” he says.
Szell finds a nerve.
“No, it’s not safe.” Babe screams.
Szell is frustrated, but he got an answer
to his question.
I didn’t do that well when I asked if it
was safe to dump chicken manure where
Abbotsford homeless live. It outraged
homeless advocate James Breckenridge,
who called the press.
“I am deeply sorry for my actions,” said
city manager George Murray.
He promised to find better solutions to
homelessness.
This story skipped a key question before
slipping from page one: is it safe to expose

Q

uestion
of the
week:

people to chicken feces?
At www.foodsafety.com the answer is,
no.
“Salmonella grows in the intestinal
tracts of animals and birds,” it says. “Humans can become infected with pathogens after eating foods that come in direct
or indirect contact with animal feces.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture lists
10 “diseases and parasites transmittable to
humans” from improperly treated chicken
manure, including listeriosis, which killed
23 people who ate Maple Leaf meats in
2008.
And, “cryptosporidium parvum can be
fatal for people with weakened immune
problems, the elderly, and small children.”
Were any of them at the Abbotsford
dump site? Did anyone check?
Before fleeing the smell of feces and
ammonia, some campers complained of
feeling sick.
Is it safe for the environment?
Here’s the USDA: “Antibiotics, pesticides, and hormones ... used in animal
feeding operations, may pose risks ...
These compounds reach surface waters
via runoff from land-application sites.”
Ray Nickel of the B.C. Poultry Association called me “an alarmist” for suggesting chicken manure – which contains
arsenic – could contaminate ground
water, and release pathogens that make
folks sick.
Nickel says most diseases are made inert
by composting, a process growers employ
in an emergency biosecurity plan initiated after the 2004 bird flu epidemic that
forced the culling of 17 million chickens.

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What I’ve found most “alarming” is
unanswered questions. Who ordered the
dumping? Who supplied the manure?
Was it composted? What risk of disease
remained? What danger to environment,
animals, water? And, do all Canadians
have a right to respect and protection?
I tried repeatedly to ask Mr. Murray
this. No luck.
When a reporter asked him for an interview, a spokesman replied: “I don’t have
anyone available for comment today.”
Is chicken manure safe? The Canadian
Food Inspection Agency had to know.
In B.C., its dispatcher, Brad, passed me
to George, “in fruits and vegetables.”
George’s voice mail redirected me to
Alvin. Another voice mail.
I asked for a call and waited for days.
Frustrated, I tried MP Randy Kamp’s
office.
CFIA inspectors had failed to detect
E.Coli at XL Foods in Alberta in 2012.
The result was the worst beef recall in our
history.
A report recommended CFIA train
inspectors better, and “ensure a technical
expert is available to deal with media and
stakeholders.”
Stephen Harper said he’d do this, but he
hasn’t yet.
Kamp’s secretary, Mike Murray, said
I’d get a call. I did, from Lisa Murphy, in
media relations. She didn’t know about
chicken manure, but she’d locate someone. I waited, then called CFIA in Victoria. They gave me a CFIA veterinarian in
Abbotsford.

Wasting money on
advertising an idea
Editor, The News:
Been watching the hockey playoffs? Have you seen the ads
from the Conservative government about the Canada Job
Grant?
Have you seen the small writing on the screen that says
“subject to parliamentary approval?”
The Canada Job Grant is a program that doesn’t exist, and
isn’t likely to exist.
It is supposed to be a $15,000 skills training grant that will
train upwards of 130,000 Canadians a year, of which $5,000
will come from the feds, $5,000 from the province or territory, and $5,000 from the individual business.
Only problem is, the federal portion is to come from cuts
to already existing programs.
B.C. has already said it will be cutting programs to balance
the budget; not adding.
And the only businesses likely to participate are ones who
are already training workers.
So Canada has now reached the point where the federal
government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising something that is essentially nothing more than an
idea.
There is no pilot program, no study, no allies and no documentation to support this idea.
Yet voters are so oblivious to what’s going on that many
will likely vote to re-elect these people and cite programs
like the above as the reason for their support.
Cheryl Baron
Maple Ridge

You’re asking about what?
Emberly from p6

“You’re asking about chicken manure,” asked Dr. Avtar
Singh.
“Is it true, composting chicken manure doesn’t render all
pathogens inert,” I asked.
“Yes,” he said.
“Do you know anything about the manure dump in Abbotsford?”
“No.” Dr. Singh added he’d no prior knowledge of the
dumping. Someone should have checked with him.
After 2004’s flu outbreak, the CFIA and chicken growers developed a biosecurity plan to ensure the virus isn’t
passed between mega barns. It’s needed to protect a lucrative
industry.
Is the public also safe? Is there a plan for us, and the environment, as well for the safe handling of chicken manure?
Composting doesn’t kill botulism.
Are there other resistant diseases to think about? Conservation officers quickly concluded their investigation, and the
ministry of environment was satisfied as soon as the manure
was removed.
MOE must think it’s safe. But, when it’s harder than pulling
teeth to get answers from protection agencies, city staff, and
elected officials, the silence – more chilling than Szell’s drill –
declares, emphatically, that it’s not safe for any of us.
Jack Emberly is a retired teacher, local author
and environmentalist.

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Joan and Jim Fast
were evicted from
their Pitt Meadows
co-op for breaching
tenancy rules by allowing their ailing
adult son to stay
with them beyond
the allowable 60
days.
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Co-op miscarriage of justice
Editor, The News:
Re: Pitt couple evicted from housing
co-op (The News, June 5).
I hope that the B.C. Supreme Court
overturns this ruling made by the
Meadowland Co-op and B.C. Co-operative Association.
Residing at a co-op in Maple Ridge
for seniors, I am painfully familiar
with too many rules – often outdated
and dictatorial rules.
It is appalling to have fewer rights in
our golden years.
Joan and Jim Fast deserve to be

treated with consideration, respect
and compassion for doing all they
can for their ailing adult son, in their
home.
Rules can be changed, exceptions
can be made, given the circumstances
of individual cases.
The actions of the Meadowland
board of directors, their lawyers and
the B.C. co-op branch, and the 66 per
cent of the members who voted to
evict this couple, reeks of unfairness.
Disregarding common sense, quality of life, moral and ethical values, is

an abomination for which the co-op
should be punished.
Joan and Jim Fast should not.
I trust and expect this miscarriage
of justice to be rectified by the Supreme Court.
Having an advocate at seniors’ coops will go a long way to ease the pressure and abuse of power exercised by
closed minds that enforce rules and
ignore all other factors – such as human rights and family values.
Nelida Tilbe
Maple Ridge

How flexible is education system, really?
Editor, The News:
Re: School board raises
rent for facilities (The News,
June 14).
In this article, Superintendant Jan Unwin uses the word
flexible as it pertains to class
sizes and case loads of teachers.
Now flexible on its own
is normally seen as a good
word – one that seems to fit
with collaboration and team
work. It’s a word we like to
think of when we think of get-

ting along and compromising.
In this case, however, flexible is that buzz word from
the ministry of education that
really means ‘teachers need to
be flexible and compensate for
the underfunding of the system.’
When students sign up for
courses, they pick alternatives
in case classes are full.
They understand the system and they understand that
when 32 students request a
course in any given year that

two of them will have to move
on to their alternative choice.
There is always next year.
In terms of the idea of teacher load, or case load per teacher, as an alternative to class
size limits, there are inherent
pitfalls.
With tightening budgets and
decreasing enrolment, scheduling of courses becomes
more difficult at the secondary level.
It would be very easy to
place 37 students in one block

and 23 in another to achieve
case load, but that does nothing to produce the best learning conditions and working
conditions in that classroom
of 37.
The flexibility then lies with
the teacher and the students to
find workarounds rather than
the system being flexible to
the conditions needed for best
educational practice.
How flexible is that?
Todd Patrick
Maple Ridge

Values from bygone era are still held by many
Editor, The News:
Re: What ails the New
Democrats? Plenty (B.C.
Views, June 19).
Thank you to Tom Fletcher
for another provocative column concerning what ails the
New Democratic Party.
This seems to be one of his
favorite subjects.
I only wish the editor would
give him more column inches so he could have included

such things as believing that
the resources of B.C. should
benefit all the citizens rather
than merely a few wealthy
corporate friends; that hard
working folks should be paid
enough to live on; that holding the record for kids in
poverty is not something we
should value; that investing
in education pays great dividends for all of us; that planning to reduce poverty actu-

ally saves the government
money; that ‘green’ jobs are
the future; that supporting
young families with good
quality daycare would actually boost our provincial GDP;
that people taking loved ones
to the hospital don’t need the
added stress of pay parking;
that corporations should pay
their fair share of the taxes to
support services; that people
with disabilities deserve de-

cent levels of support.
I know many of these are
values of a bygone era (Mr.
Fletcher’s words), so 20th
Century – but they are still
held by many Canadians.
Bob Goos
Maple Ridge
Editor’s note: Bob Goos
is president of the
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows
NDP riding association.

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Each of Maple Ridge’s
councillors are making
just under $43,000, says
the 2012 statement of financial information.
As for the leader of
the group, Mayor Ernie
Daykin’s salary actually dropped by $180 last
year compared to 2011.
Daykin’s Maple Ridge
salary rings in at $99,435,
less than the $99,615 he
made the previous year.
The information is in
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Financial Information
presented at the June 17
committee of the whole
meeting and shows
councillor’s expenses for
2012 ranging from a low
of $1,019 for Coun. Judy
Dueck to a high of $6,838
for Mayor Ernie Daykin.
The numbers show
that the total amount in
wages for Maple Ridge
senior staff earning more
than $75,000 climbed by
6.4 per cent, to a total of
$12,939,886.
Combined with the
salaries of employees
making less than $75,000
a year, the district’s total

wage tab came to $31.4
million, about $1.4 million more than the year
before.
That works out to a
4.7-per-cent
increase,
which is a drop from last
year’s hike of about 5.5
per cent.
Salaries can vary yearly
according to the number
of pay periods, where an
employee is on the pay
grid and if staff are paid
out for unused vacation.
The district’s wage bill
has also increased in recent years as it moves
from a paid-volunteer
force to a hybrid of fulltime firefighters and
part-timers.
Firefighters are making
between $78,103 up to
$95,948.
Coun. Cheryl Ashlie
said politicians are hearing from the people that
they can’t afford constantly rising taxes.
“We have to have a definite shift in how we operate.”
She’s looking forward
to the recommendations
from the new municipal

auditor general, who’s
first looking at how cities issue contracts, as well
as their human resources
practices.
“From the municipal
level, there is that will to
get better.”
The district also compared its taxes with others in the Lower Mainland, noting it has the
fourth lowest when average single family homes
are compared.
In Maple Ridge, municipal taxes payable on that
house are $1,966.
Langley township has
the lowest municipal taxes for 2013 at $1,682.
Surrey is next cheapest
at $1,719, with Pitt Meadows charging $1,760 and
Mission, $1,839.
Residents in Port Coquitlam, North Van, Delta, Vancouver and New
Westminster all pay more
taxes for the same house.
With recycling, water
and sewer charges included, Maple Ridge residents paid about another
4.3 per cent in taxes for
2013, or another $116.

Cycle path up for
council vote soon
A major piece of the
cycling path puzzle
will be laid into place
this summer, if council approves a contract for $877,693 to
Mission Contractors.
The money will be
for a new, separated
pathway for use by
cyclists and pedestrians on the north side
of Lougheed Highway between 216th
and Laity streets.
Once consultants
fees,
landscaping
and improvements
to the corner of Laity Street are added,
the 635-metre project
comes to $1.1 million.
However, grants of
$758,831 are reducing the cost to the
district.
The project includes
building a retaining
wall, sidewalks, street
lights, curbs and gutters and will provide
an important link for
cyclists trying to connect with cycle paths
in the downtown area
and farther west.

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Ridge fire
department,
Hydro work
out a plan
The fire chiefs and B.C.
Hydro have figured out a
way to minimize the risk
of wild fires on the new
powerline right of way,
slicing through northern
Maple Ridge.
Fire chief Peter Grootendorst said Hydro and
its contractor FlatironGraham met with the fire
department, the Wildfire
Management Branch and
UBC’s Malcolm Knapp
Research Forest, located
at the north end of 232nd
Street, to work on a “prefire plan” to prevent a forest fire during mid summer.
Research forest manager Paul Lawson is worried that piles of slash left
over from the clearing
could fuel a major fire
during mid summer. If
fire spread to the nearby
research forest, treegrowing
experiments
spanning decades could
be wiped out.
Grootendorst
said
Hydro will start grinding
and chipping the timber piles next week, then
hauling the chips off site.
The research forest and
fire department pointed
out the high hazard areas
that will be the priorities
for removing the debris.
Grootendorst expects
the chipping to be underway within two weeks, in
time to get debris chewed
through before hot
weather makes the forest
too risky to work in.
B.C. Hydro has said
work crews are all trained
in firefighting and equipment is on standby as well
as helicopters.
A mock firefighting exercise will also be part of
the preparations.
The fire department
has previously written to
Hydro about the issue.
Grootendorst said the
powerline right of way
stretches 14 kilometres
through Maple Ridge,
which works out to about
200 hectares.
B.C. Hydro and its contractor, Flatiron-Graham
are building a 247-kilometre, 500-kilovolt powerline from Merritt to
Coquitlam, mostly along
an existing powerline.

aple Ridge has
lost one of the
community’s
great leaders with the
passing of Sherman Olson.
He was a graduate of
UBC, then the Northern
Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago in
1951. Olson worked for
almost 20 years in a Vancouver practice at Granville and Georgia, then
in 1971 come to Maple
Ridge to raise his family.
He and his wife Josephine had daughters
Julie and Nancy. Julie
was born with cerebral
palsy, and Olson served
as president of the Vancouver Cerebral Palsy
Association, and was
the founding chairman
of the B.C. Neurological
Society.
Olson also served as
president of the B.C.
Association of Optometrists and numerous other professional groups.
He was back and forth
to Victoria, shepherding
legislation that allowed
optometrists to enter the
Medical Services Plan,
so their services would
be covered.
He was also a great
builder in the equestrian
sports, and worked for
horse trails.
In the book The
Horsemen, co-author
Jan White writes: “As a
founder of Horse Council B.C., his vision of
building a strong, provincial equine body,
his commitment to this
cause and his dedication and direction as
the president for the
first 10 years resulted in
the strongest and largest
of all provincial horse
councils in Canada.”
He and partners purchased the Maple Ridge
Riding Centre, and operated it as a community
resource from 1974 to
1984.

“There was
nothing on his
bucket list, he told
me.”
Nancy Olson-Beaulieu
Among his many accomplishments was a
national riders relay
called the Ride for Canada in 1992, which took
four months to cross the
country from the Yukon, through B.C. and
east to Ottawa, bearing

Invitation to Tender

The District of Maple Ridge invites Tender submissions from interested and
experienced parties for all labour, material and equipment required for the site
preparation and installation of a neighbourhood park located at 20208 Wharf
Street, Maple Ridge, B.C.
Sealed Submissions are requested by the undersigned, on or before 2:00 pm,
local time, July 8, 2013:
Nichole Walsh, Purchasing Supervisor
The District of Maple Ridge
11995 Haney Place, Reception Desk (Main Floor)
Maple Ridge, BC, V2X 6A9
Submissions received after the preferred time of receipt may or may not be
considered.
A NON-MANDATORY site tour will be held at 10:00 am, local time, June 24, 2013.
There will be no public opening for this Invitation for Tender.
Once a contract has been awarded the name(s) of the successful Contractor(s)
will be available to anyone upon request. All submissions become the property
of the District of Maple Ridge and are subject to the Freedom of Information and
Privacy Legislation.
Copies of the Invitation to Tender will be available, on or before June 19, 2013 for
download from BCBid at www.bcbid.ca. Tender documents submitted by facsimile
machine or electronic media will not be considered.
All inquiries regarding this Invitation to Tender are requested in writing to Nichole
Walsh at nwalsh@mapleridge.ca or fax: 604-466-4328.
11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, BC V2X 6A9
Tel: 604-463-5221 • Fax: 604-467-7329

www.mapleridge.ca

Contributed

Sherman Olson moved to Maple Ridge in 1971 and opened an optometry clinic.
the theme Expression
of Unity, Pride and Love
for our Country. He
concluded the ride on
Parliament Hill, in the
presence of the Queen,
and later received a Governor General’s Award.
He was also the founding president of Trail
B.C., which he started to
help recreational riders
build, map and maintain
trails in the province.
His home community
was the main beneficiary of Olson’s leadership skills. He served on
the hospital board and
the hospital foundation,
the chamber of commerce, arts council, Ma-

ple Ridge community
foundation and the economic advisory council.
In 2001, he organized
the first Thomas Haney
Days festival.
“He touched so many
lives, and made a difference,” said his daughter
Nancy Olson-Beaulieu.
“He had a full life and no
regrets. There was nothing on his bucket list, he
told me.”
Among his many honours, Olson was Maple
Ridge’s Business Person of the Year, Horse
Person of the year, and
received the hospital
foundation’s president’s
award, as well as the

highest honour from the
B.C. Association of Optometrists.
His colleagues in the
latter association referred to him as “The
Father of Optometry.”
Each year, Olson
would give a speech to
welcome new optometrists to B.C., and that
was what he was about
to do in his last days.
Olson was at the annual
general meeting for the
college of optometry,
and was to speak the
next day. Staying at the
Metropolitan Hotel in
Vancouver on June 9, he
passed away in his sleep.
He was 85.

Public Notice
2012 ANNUAL REPORT
Notice is given in accordance with section 94 of the Community Charter
that the 2012 Annual Report of the District of Maple Ridge will be received
by Council in a public meeting to be held on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. The
meeting will be held at 7:00 pm in the Council Chambers at the District of
Maple Ridge Municipal Hall located at 11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, BC.

The District of Maple Ridge invites tenders for structural lining of one wood stave culvert on
112 Avenue, at 24296 112 Avenue.
The work generally consists of management of the stream flows, environmental construction
management, clearing and grubbing, structural lining of the culvert with a resin-impregnated
structural liner, and site restoration.
Tender Documents may be obtained on or after Tuesday, June 25, 2013 during normal
business hours (Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, except holidays) at the Engineering
Counter of the District of Maple Ridge, on payment of a non-refundable amount of $52.50
(incl. GST) made payable to the District of Maple Ridge. The document can also be downloaded from BC Bid at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca. Unverified bid results will also be available on
BC Bid after closing time.
The Tender Documents may be viewed at the Plan Room of the Vancouver Regional Construction Association, 3636 East 4 Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5M 1M3.
Tender submission requires the accompaniment of a Bid Bond (or Certified Cheque) in the
amount of ten percent (10%) of the total Tender Price and a Confirmation of Surety to provide Performance and Labour and Material Payment Bond if the tender is successful, each in
the amount of fifty percent (50%) of the Tender Price.
For all inquiries, contact Velimir Stetin at the District of Maple Ridge, 604-467-7495.
The District of Maple Ridge reserves the right to reject any or all Tenders or to accept the
Tender deemed most favourable in the interests of the District. The lowest or any Tender may
not necessarily be accepted and the District will not be responsible for any cost incurred by
the Tenderer in preparing the Tender.

The 2012 Annual Report is available for viewing at Municipal Hall at the
reception desk and also on the District’s website at www.mapleridge.ca.

LIQUOR PRIMARY LICENCE APPLICATION
The District of Maple Ridge gives notice that it is seeking public opinion
on the following Liquor Primary Licence application: Proposed change to
seating capacity.
Applicant:
Establishment Location:
Current Seating Capacity:
Additional Seats:
Total Seating Capacity:

Blacksheep Pub
12968 232 Street, Maple Ridge
158
55
213

There are no proposed changes to the hours of operation.
Current onsite parking exceeds the bylaw requirements.
Persons who consider themselves affected by this application are
requested to make written submissions in the form of a letter addressed
to the Council of the District of Maple Ridge, 11995 Haney Place, Maple
Ridge, BC V2X 6A9. You may send your letter by regular mail or e-mail to
mayorandcouncil@mapleridge.ca
Written submissions will be accepted until 4:00 pm June 30, 2013.
Please note that all submissions will be considered a public document
and all information contained in it will be publicly available.
For further information or clarification only, on the proposed Licence
Application, contact Liz Holitzki, Director of Licences, Permits and Bylaws at
604-467-7370 between 8:00 am and 4:00 pm Monday to Friday.
11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, BC V2X 6A9
Tel: 604-463-5221 • Fax: 604-467-7329

The District of Maple Ridge invites tender submissions for the completion of structural
seismic upgrades to a Sanitary Lift station located near the Fraser River at the corner of
Lougheed Highway Haney Bypass and 225 Street in Maple Ridge, BC.
The work generally consists of the following:
· repairs to the cracked brickwork at the entrance at the south side of the building;
· new stairwell roof support;
· new steel braces at four (4) locations;
· connection between the old generator room roof and main building roof system with
steel bolts through the existing concrete beams.

T

wo months ago,
Malcolm Coulter
was a heathy sixyear-old.
He was attending
school at Hammond
elementary, where his
mother, Tammy Jones,
had just started teaching,
and his two older sisters,
Dara, 8, and Macy, 11,
also attend.
Although he had the
flu a couple of times last
winter and was dragging
a bit, he was still acting
like a normal boy, one
who enjoyed playing Skylanders, Pokemon, Wii
and building Lego. He
also enjoyed kicking the
soccer ball around, playing ball hockey with his
eldest sister and dancing
with both of them, especially in competition with
the Wii game Just Dance.
Malcolm had been having occasional headaches
and vomiting episodes,
but it wasn’t until midApril when he went to
the ACT with his family
to watch Dara perform in
the Showstoppers Academy production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Junior that he turned to
his mom and told her he
was seeing double in his
right eye.
This was the second
time he’d had double vision in days, so he visited
an optometrist in Maple
Ridge.
“He had nothing really
alarming,” said Malcolm’s
mother.
Just the headaches and
vomiting.
“The doctors even said
normally they wouldn’t
be worried about that either. We thought it might
have been the stomach
flu since it had been going around in January.
But it was the double vision that sent us to the
doctor,” Jones said.
The optometrist told
them that the optic nerves
in both eyes were swollen
and referred Malcolm to

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Fran McDiarmid of the Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary, Branch 263, hands the
talking Teddy beat to Malcolm Coulter, sitting with his mom, Tammy Jones.
a pediatric ophthalmologist in Surrey. Three days
later, the ophthalmologist
told them to go straight to
the Emergency Department at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
After a CT scan, doctors discovered that Malcolm had a golf-ball-sized
brain tumor at the back
of his head, sitting on his
brain stem.
He was diagnosed on
April 26 with malignant
madulloblastoma.
Neurosurgeons
performed emergency brain
surgery the next day to
remove the tumor. They
were able to get the bulk
of it out but, not wanting
to touch the brain stem,
were only able to shave
the rest of the tumor
down.
Now Malcolm is facing
more than a year of radiation and chemotherapy
treatments.
Every Monday to Friday, for 15 to 20 minutes
each morning, Malcolm
receives radiation therapy
at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.
For the first three weeks
he received radiation for
both his spine and brain.

But now just for his brain.
“He has been tolerating
it with an anesthetic,” said
Malcolm’s grandmother,
Darlene Holmes.
In total, Malcolm will
have six weeks of radiation therapy. He has already finished three.
He’s also started chemotherapy, every Monday.
“The combination of
the one chemotherapy
drug with the radiation
seems to get good results
with his cancer,” said
Jones.
Once his radiation
therapy has ended, Malcolm will have a four
week recovery period
before starting nine sixweek cycles of intensive
chemotherapy.
His
chemotherapy
treatments will require
him to spend three days
in hospital. It will take
him five and a half weeks
to recover, building up
blood counts before doing the process all over
again.
He will be receiving
chemo until September
2014.
In the meantime, his
mother has since left her
teaching job to stay at

A NON-MANDATORY site tour is scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 10:30 am
at the site location.
The tender documents can be downloaded from BC Bid at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca. There
will not be a public opening for this Invitation to Tender. Unverified bid results will be
available on BC Bid after the closing time.
For all inquiries, contact Daniela Mikes, Manager of Procurement at the District of
Maple Ridge, Tel: 604-466-4343; dmikes@mapleridge.ca.
The District of Maple Ridge reserves the right to reject any or all Tenders or to accept
the Tender deemed most favourable in the interests of the District. The lowest or any
Tender may not necessarily be accepted and the District will not be responsible for any
cost incurred by the Tenderer in preparing the Tender.
Tender Closing Date:
Tender Closing Time:
Tender Deposit Place:

The Dewdney Medical Group
would like to announce the coming retirement
of Dr. Allen Neufeld.
They would like to take the opportunity
to welcome Dr. Andel Kok who has arrived
from South Africa to take over
Dr. Neufeld’s practice.
Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Kok will both be working
through May and June to ensure a smooth transition
of care for their patients.

home with him.
On Thursday, friends
of Holmes and members
of the Royal Canadian
Legion Ladies Auxiliary,
Branch 263 out of Coquitlam, gave Malcolm
a special Teddy bear to
raise his spirits and help
him through his therapy.
Legion president Fran
McDiarmid and pastpresident Isabelle Nisbet met Malcolm at his
home in Maple Ridge
to give him the bear. It
has a cassette deck in its
leg and came with seven
tapes. Each one discusses
a different topic, including relaxation and deep
breathing
techniques,
set to peaceful music, to
help him cope with his
therapy.
It is one of the last bears
distributed by the ladies
auxiliary, as the program
has been discontinued.
Still, McDiarmid says
the bears are meant to
boost the esteem of sick
children.
“We are hoping that
this is going to make life a
little easier for him,” Nisbet added. “It is so sad to
be so young and have to
carry so much pain.”
One of the things Malcolm wants to do when
he gets better is to try hip
hop dancing.
There is an 80 per cent
cure rate for the cancer
treatment program Malcolm is on.
“So we’ve got our fingers crossed that things
will turn out well,” said
Jones.

To donate
to donate or send well
wishes to Malcolm go to
http://www.rallyformalcolm.com. All donations in
support of Malcolm will
go directly to his care. Any
surplus funds will be
donated to B.C. Children’s
hospital.

Maple Ridge preparing to battle against invasive knotweed plant
Maple Ridge is arming itself to fight an
invasive plant that
some say can ruin in-

frastructure and cost
millions of dollars.
District staff want
to add Japanese knot-

weed to its list of noxious weeds that are
part of its Untidy and
Unsightly
Premises

Bylaw. Staff also want
to allow bylaw officers
to mail clean-up orders
for empty lots where

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there is no building on
which to post a notice,
instead of the present
system, for which notices are left unsecured
or outside buildings.
A staff report says
there has been a “serious rise in the presence
of Japanese knotweed.”
The species is invasive and must be controlled. It is now found
all along Lougheed
Highway.
Adding
Japanese
knotweed to the list
will allow the district
to order that it be removed from a property.
Council will consider
the changes at a future
meeting after reading a
report at its committee
meeting Monday.
Last year, eradication crews from
the Invasive Species
Council of Metro
Vancouver worked to
contain the spread of
Japanese
knotweed
along Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows,

Japanese knotweed is difficult to eradicate.
as well as Kanaka
Creek Regional Park.
To kill the plant,
eradication
crews
must inject a herbicide called glyphosate,
the active ingredient
in Round-Up. Smaller
plants require targeted
spraying.
Last year, an infesta-

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tion of Japanese knotweed was discovered
splitting concrete in
the footings of the
Ironworkers Memorial
Bridge and infesting a
section of the Highway
1 expansion project in
Burnaby.
– staff reporter

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Peace
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couldElder
be awesome,
if you
call today.
acknowledges
Abuse Day
on June
15th.
June 22

So far, eight firearms and about
500 rounds of ammunition have
been turned into the Ridge
Meadows RCMP during this
June’s gun amnesty.
The local detachment is joining all police departments across
B.C. in declaring a province-wide
firearms amnesty this month.
The goal is to provide citizens the
opportunity to safely dispose of
unwanted firearms that may be in
their possession, generally with a
“no questions asked” approach
by law enforcement.
“A gun amnesty provides an opportunity to reduce the number
of firearms in our communities,
which enhances public and police officer safety,” said Sgt. Dale
Somerville in a press release.
“Unwanted, or improperly secured, weapons can be potential
hazards which can result in devastating consequences, such as a
young child playing with them.
There is also a chance that a common thief can steal a firearm in

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Unwanted or improperly secured weapons are potential hazards.
a break and enter, which then
could lead to the gun being used
in the commission of another
crime on a future date.
“If you have any unwanted
weapons, firearms, or ammunition, now is the perfect opportunity to help make both your
home and community safer during the B.C. Gun Amnesty. This
includes anyone who is, or is not,
in legal possession.”
Between June 1-30, any resident
of Pitt Meadows or Maple Ridge

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can call police at 604-463-6251
and an officer will come to their
home at an agreed-upon time to
pick up the firearm, weapon, or
ammunition for destruction.
As long as the gun or weapon
has no links to a serious crime,
then no questions will be asked.
The last gun amnesty was in
2006, and police recovered more
than 3,200 guns, over 96,000
rounds of ammunition, and 725
other unwanted weapons across
the province.

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www.mapleridgenews.com

Property Taxes Are Due Tuesday July 2

Frequently Asked Questions and Answers On Your 2013
2013 Property
Property Taxes
Taxes
Question: II prefer
prefer to
to pay
pay my
my property
Question:
property taxes
taxes in
in
person.
Will
you
be
open
late
in
June?
person. Will you be open late in June?
Yes. Regular
Regular office
office hours
hours are
Yes.
are 8:00
8:00 am
am to
to 4:00
4:00
pm
Monday
to
Friday.
In
June,
Municipal
pm Monday to Friday. In June, Municipal Hall
Hall will
will
be open
open until
until 8:00
8:00 pm
pm each
each Thursday
be
Thursday to
to handle
handle
your questions
questions and
and payments.
payments. We
your
We are
are open
open until
until
8:00
pm
on
Thursday,
June
27,
2013.
8:00 pm on Thursday, June 27, 2013.

Question: I have not received my 2013
Property Tax Notice. What should I do?
You should have received your 2013 Property
Tax Notice in the mail the last week of May.
Please contact us at the numbers below or stop
by to get a print out of your notice as tax
payments must be made by Tuesday, July 2, 2013.

Question: Are there penalties for late or
outstanding balances after July 2?
Yes. A 5% penalty is assessed on any amount
outstanding after July 2, 2013, and a further 5%
penalty will be charged on amounts outstanding
after September 3, 2013.

Question: Can I access my account online?
Yes. You can sign up for the ‘My Maple Ridge’
service and see all of your account information
online. Look for details in the brochure that came
with your tax notice or online at mapleridge.ca.

Question:
Question: What
What alternatives
alternatives are
are there
there to
to
lining
up?
lining up?

You
You can
can mail
mail your
your payment
payment or
or drop
drop itit off
off
anytime,
using
a
post
dated
cheque
anytime, using a post dated cheque to
to July
July 2,
2,
2013
2013 and
and avoid
avoid lining
lining up.
up. Make
Make sure
sure that
that you
you
include
include the
the remittance
remittance stub
stub and,
and, ifif you
you are
are
eligible,
complete
the
Home
Owner
eligible, complete the Home Owner Grant
Grant applicaapplication
tion and
and include
include itit with
with your
your payment.
payment.
There’s
There’s aa secure
secure drop
drop box
box in
in the
the lobby
lobby of
of
Municipal
Municipal Hall
Hall available
available during
during office
office hours
hours and
and
after
after hours
hours you
you can
can use
use the
the secure
secure drop
drop box
box
located
located at
at the
the west
west entrance
entrance to
to Municipal
Municipal Hall
Hall
(east
(east of
of the
the Library
Library entrance).
entrance).
You
You can
can also
also claim
claim your
your Home
Home Owner
Owner Grant
Grant
Online
Online and
and pay
pay your
your property
property taxes
taxes using
using online
online
banking
banking or
or at
at your
your financial
financial institution.
institution.
Look
Look for
for details
details at
at mapleridge.ca
mapleridge.ca by
by clicking
clickingon
on
our
our tax
tax information
information button.
button.

Question:
Question: Do
Do you
you accept
accept credit
credit cards?
cards?
Yes.
Yes. Starting
Starting this
this year
year you
you can
can pay
pay your
your
outstanding property
property tax
tax balance
balance with
with your
your credit
credit
outstanding
card online
online or
or by
by telephone
telephone using
using aa third
third party
party
card
service provider
provider called
called ‘Paymentus.’They
‘Paymentus.’They charge
charge
service
3% service
service fee,
fee, over
over the
the tax
tax due
due amount.
amount. For
For
a 3%
more information
information on
on this
this payment
payment option
option please
please
more
go to
to mapleridge.ca
mapleridge.ca
go

Introduce and develop basic movement skills through experiment, practice and play. Designed to help preschoolers
to feel competent and comfortable participating in a variety of fun and challenging sport activities.

Micro Program (U6/U7)

Learn fundamental movement skills and build overall motor skills in a fun environment.
Continue to master the body and begin to master the ball.

Mini Program (U8-U10)

MAPLE RIDGE YOUTH BASKETBALL PRESENTS

MAPLE RIDGE RAMBLERS

BASKETBALL CAMPS

ELEMENTARY GRADES: JULY 1–5 FROM 1–4PM $75
CAMPS IN THE DOCKENDORF GYMNASIUM
AT MAPLE RIDGE SECONDARY SCHOOL
FOR STUDENTS ENTERING GRADES 5-8 IN SEPTEMBER 2013.
VISIT WWW.MRYB.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION & REGISTRATION.

Learn overall soccer skills. Learn the importance of training.
Mastering the ball and learning to share it with others while keeping it from opponents.

Super 8 Program (U11-U12)

Continued advancement of overall soccer skills with increasing competitive elements.

Divisional Program (U13-U18)

Consolidate sport-specific skills to tactical application on the field. “Time-on-skill” training through repetition. Understanding and building
on physical foundations (i.e. aerobic conditioning,
speed & strength development) on and off the field.

Register Now
Summer Arts Programs
held In Maple Ridge
& Pitt Meadows!
Creative Fusion
Fine Arts Camp
A sampling of some of our
most popular
fine arts programs.
Sign up for some
great summer fun
in this week-long
camp happening
July 2 - 5
Register today at
604-465-2470

“Showtime
Theatre”
Singing, Dancing & Acting Production!
Stepping stone for young Performers on Stage. Taught by
professionals working in the Performing Arts.

Call now for more information or to register.
PEGGY PEAT PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY
We make you feel like dancing!

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NEW

Peggy Peat School of Dance
Teaching in Maple Ridge for 43 years

#5 - 20475 Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge

604-465-6636

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A Knights Tale is all about Sir Spamalot who is the Kings most trusted in his Court. Our
story unfolds with Sir Spamalot realizing that the King, who has been out of the country for
many a year, is due to return and everything must be in tip top shape. But in looking things
over, the kingdom is in a shambles and not at all where it ought to be when the King returns.
He calls a meeting of the Knights of the Triangle Table to discuss the problem at hand and
come up with the question…what must be done to prepare for the king? Through the antics
of the Court and the mishaps that usually take place in our SKC dramas, we are left with lots
of laughs and lessons to learn.
In keeping with the theme, we have lots of fun for everyone each and every day. From the
Daily Jousting Matches and Quests, to the Jester’s Riddle of the day and Camelot’s Court,
there is sure to be something for everyone, boys and girls, young and old. Don’t miss out on
this exciting program.
This program is open to those going INTO Kindergarten to Grade 7 in September 2013.
The dates to mark on your calendar are July 15-19, 2013 from 4:00-7:30pm each day.
The cost this year will remain the same as the past few years at
$30 each with a family max of $100. This covers the entire program
which includes all dinners, snacks and program! Registrations will
be accepted anytime from now until Friday, July 5th at 4pm. You can
come in to the church and register or you can register and even pay
online. If you still have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact
the church office at 604-465-4418.

Our whole team is looking forward to seeing you at
Summer Kid’s Club ~ 2013 July 15-19!

An independent study
credits B.C.’s controversial drinking and driving laws for a 40 per
cent drop in fatal crashes related to alcohol.
Since
September
of 2010, police have
handed out temporary
driving bans and fines
to many drivers caught
with blood-alcohol levels over .05, including
many who blow over
the criminal threshold
of .08 who would previously have been prosecuted for impaired
driving.
The Centre for Addictions Research at the
University of Victoria
and UBC researchers
studied crash statistics
before and after the Immediate Roadside Prohibition program took
effect and concluded
there has also been a 23
per cent drop in injuries
and 19.5 per cent less
property damage stemming from alcohol-related crashes.
“The goals of improved road safety by
the provincial government were achieved,”
the report said, despite
the “partial decriminalization” of impaired
driving in B.C. that accompanied the change.
According to the
study, 2,890 drivers
were charged with impaired driving after the
policy change, compared to 9,070 in the
year prior to implementation – a 68 per cent
drop.
It notes roadside pen-

alties are enforced immediately and seen as
more severe – particularly at the lower alcohol levels – while it’s a
long, difficult and uncertain process to convicted drunk drivers in
court.
Researchers said they
can’t tell for certain if
the new penalties themselves or the publicity
about them are most responsible for the change
in behaviour.
Criminal charges are
still more likely with repeat offenders, according to the study.
It notes police can’t issue roadside penalties
for crashes they didn’t
witness, so criminal
charges are the only option in those cases.
Provincial politicians
have promoted the
change as a life-saver,
but they also acknowledge it has helped relieve some pressure on
the congested justice
system.
Officials at the Centre
for Addictions Research
said the findings suggest
other provinces should
follow B.C.’s lead.
B.C. Civil Liberties
Association executive
director Josh Patterson
said the new approach
runs counter to the presumption of innocence
in our society.
“We don’t think that
police should be in the
position of giving out
punishment,” he said.
“We think that is the job
of the courts.”
B.C.’s program was
revised to require the
right to two breath tests,
with the lowest reading
being used, and an appeal procedure is now
in place.
Legal challenges that
aim to overturn the system are still before the
courts.

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reform
campaigners say they’ve
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Pattison Outdoors has
refused to sell the pot
decriminalization campaign billboards in
areas such as Surrey,
Vancouver,
Burnaby,
Delta, Langley and the
Tri-Cities.
“Surrey was going to
be an important area for
us because it’s densely
populated with a lot of

second wave of an automated phone dialing
campaign to reach out
to every B.C. household
in search of volunteers.
More than 2,000 new
volunteers signed up in
the first round.
They, in turn, are
working phone banks
and hitting up summer
festivals, farmers’ markets and other outdoor
events to find more recruits.
“It’s by no means guaranteed,” Larsen said,
noting only the Fight
HST initiative ever
reached the referendum
stage. “It’s a very, very
challenging campaign.”
Larsen said one obstacle is the stigma of
pot reform, despite a
high-profile group of
supporters that include
public health officers
and former attorneysgeneral.
“People are afraid of
being judged for supporting our issue,” he
said. “People say ‘I really want to support
you but I can’t put up
a marijuana poster in
my workplace’ or ‘I
can’t support you in my
storefront window.’”
But the campaign that
got started on Larsen’s
credit cards has also hit
lucky breaks.
The biggest was last
year’s $25-million lottery win for Terrace pot
activist Bob Erb, who
has pledged several
hundred thousand dollars to match Sensible
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said.
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provincial campaign in
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campaign is expected to
start in mid-September,
giving volunteers 90
days to sign up 10 per
cent of voters in each
riding. If they clear that
hurdle, a province-wide
referendum would be
held in 2014 to decriminalize marijuana possession and implement
the Sensible Policing
Act blocking police enforcement.
No explanation for the
refusal has been given,
Larsen said, adding he
offered to change the
proposed wording or
remove the marijuana
leaf image.
Sensible B.C. has one
electronic
billboard
with that design up in
West Vancouver with a
competing firm.
A representative at
Pattison
Outdoors
could not be reached
for comment.
Larsen said Pattison
is the largest signage
provider in many communities and virtually
the only option in some
areas.
He said they’ll look
to other providers and
methods of reaching
people.
“This isn’t a make-orbreak problem for us,”
Larsen said. “It’s a small
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The rationale for the
charge is that residential care is a person’s
home, Jabs said, and
while the public health
system covers the cost
of medical and health
care needs, care home
residents should pay for
personal equipment and
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being imposed by Lower
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homes has no precedent
in B.C. after all, nor any
clear reason for its timing.
Health ministry officials have backtracked
on their initial claim the
planned $25-a-month fee
for seniors in publicly run
residential care homes is
already in place in some
areas outside the Lower
Mainland.
In fact, the Northern,
Interior and Vancouver
Island health authorities
have been considering a
similar fee, but have yet
to impose one, nor have
they gone as far as issuing
notifications to residents,
as Fraser Health has done.
The fee is to recoup
the cost of maintaining
wheelchairs that, until
now, have been provided
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who don’t have their own.
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ful and laughable” for
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wheelchair access as a feefor-service item like cable
TV in a seniors’ home.
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2011 and 2012 revisions
clarified the manual and
made it clear no one will
be denied a wheelchair
if they can’t afford to pay
the fee.
Asked again if health
authorities or the province are imposing the
fee, Jabs said the decision
to charge is up to the
health authorities, but
they are all working with
the ministry “to ensure
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ated care homes have had
such fees for years.
And it remains unclear
what has triggered the
move now.
Ministry officials previously pointed to an Oct.
2012 update of a policy
manual outlining allowable fees for residents in
care, saying the health authorities are now coming
into line with that change.
Except that there was no
change.
The provision for fees
on “chargeable items”
such as wheelchairs and
canes already existed with
identical wording in earlier April 2011 and January 2010 versions of the
Home and Community
Care policy manual.
“The 2010 and 2011
policies contain the same
sections, using the same
language, delivering the
same meaning on what
the health authorities
could charge for a wheelchair,” B.C. NDP leader
Adrian Dix said.
“What we’re seeing is
Fraser Health responding to the government’s
unbalanced budget – after the election, of course,
which presumably was
part of the instructions
– and imposing these
charges now.”
Dix said it’s “disrespect-

“There is no outbreak and I
want to reassure residents
of the Lower Mainland
that there is no risk to the
public or to residents in our
facilities.”
Paul Van Buynder, Fraser Health
Three more possible case were investigated by Fraser over the past year but
are considered unlikely to be CJD.
CJD victims die about a year after
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are believed to have it.
“I want to be clear there is absolutely
no evidence that these three confirmed
or probable cases are linked to food
consumption,” said Paul Van Buynder,
Fraser Health’s chief medical health officer.
He said these are cases of “classical”
CJD that appear every year, albeit rarely, at a rate of one or two per million.
Tests have ruled out the variant form
of CJD linked to consumption of beef
from cattle infected with mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
“There has never been a home-grown
case of variant CJD in Canada so this is
not surprising,” Van Buynder said.
He said some media and social media reports wrongly referred to the local cases as “human mad cow disease.”
About 30 Canadians a year contract
the standard form of CJD.

Van Buynder said the three cases in
Fraser are one or two more than might
normally be expected here in a year,
but still within what’s statistically likely.
“There is no outbreak and I want to
reassure residents of the Lower Mainland that there is no risk to the public
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VICTORIA – Premier
Christy Clark has rolled
back salary increases for
political staff, after getting
an earful from voters.
Clark
told reporters
Wednesday that salary increases for her chief of staff
and new positions with the
same title in ministers’ offices will not go ahead.
“I have heard a lot from
British Columbians in the
last week about this issue
of changing the pay scales
and pay levels for political
staff, so today I am rescinding those changes, because
leadership means listening
to people,” Clark said. “Although the original change
would have meant we were
underspending the budget by $100,000, I’ve heard
loud and clear that people
didn’t like it.”
The lone exception is
Clark’s new deputy chief
of staff, Michele Cadario,
hired for the premier’s office after serving as deputy
campaign manager for the
B.C. Liberal election campaign. Cadario will receive
a salary of $195,148 to do
the operations and policy
roles formerly done by two
people.
Dan Doyle, Clark’s chief

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Clark still has to win a byelection in Kelowna for a seat in Victoria.
of staff, remains at the
same salary as Cadario. A
government
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any raise, but recommended the maximum for his
position be increased to
$230,000 to attract the best
candidate for his successor.
The top rate for ministry chiefs of staff, formerly ministerial assistants,
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NDP leader Adrian Dix,
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the concerns of ordinary
people.
Dix said the decision to
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victory for Carole Gordon,”
the NDP candidate in the
Westside-Kelowna byelection.
Gordon is running in the
byelection called for July
10, after Clark was defeated
by NDP candidate David
Eby in a bid to retain her
Vancouver-Point Grey seat.
In the May 14 general
election, Gordon lost by
nearly a two-to-one margin
to B.C. Liberal incumbent
Ben Stewart, who resigned
last week to allow Clark to
run.

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The company that
operates Metro Vancouver’s existing garbage incinerator is one
of several bidders now
short-listed by the regional district to build
a new waste-to-energy
plant.
Covanta Energy has
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two proposals that were
short-listed by Metro
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incinerator and the other to build a gasification
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A total of 10 proposals
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have been short-listed
based on proponents’
proven track record
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energy and the expertise of their teams.
Metro intends to add
370,000 tonnes per year
of new waste-to-energy
capacity, but the project
is controversial and under steady attack from
Fraser Valley critics
over air quality concerns as well as others
who see incineration
as a threat to increased
recycling.
Seven of the 10 proposals are for massburn incinerators.
Besides Covanta, they
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giant Aecom, Plenary
Group Canada, Energy
Answers International,
Termomeccanica Ecologia,
Wheelabrator
Technologies and Aquilini Renewable Energy.
Aquilini has been in
talks with the Tsawwasen First Nation
to potentially base an
incinerator on treaty
lands there.
Another short-listed
proponent – Lehigh
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pre-process garbage as
refuse-derived fuel and

then burn it at its Delta
cement plant on River
Road at Tilbury Island,
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Energy Answers’ incinerator
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RDF systems typically
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so it burns better and
hotter.
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digestion of organics
along with gasification.
According to a Metro
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waste to a gas stream
that is directly combusted or can be converted into a syngas,
which can be converted into a fuel or other
product.
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that
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as well as several other
firms, some of which
proposed lesser known
technologies.
Some Metro directors
had previously voiced
concern the process
would ultimately result
in a mass-burn incinerator, rather than the use
of emerging alternative
waste-to-energy technologies.
The Metro staff report
on the short list notes
Metro hired a thirdparty expert panel and
a fairness advisor to ensure the procurement
process is not biased in
favour of any particular
technology. The fairness advisor and thirdparty expert panel both
endorsed the process to
rate proponents and the
outcome so far.

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TransLink is doubling down on
the concept of road pricing, arguing it should apply not just to cars
to control congestion at the busiest
times, but also to transit riders to
make more efficient use of buses and
SkyTrain as well.
A revision of TransLink’s longrange regional transportation
strategy is going to public consultation over the next two months and it
reinforces the idea of using time-ofuse pricing tools to make the most of
investments.
The Transportation 2045 plan will
argue the number of vehicle trips
travelled in the region must climb
no higher if Metro Vancouver is to
remain a livable region and not end
up mired in gridlock.
Capping car travel will be hard.
The overall number of trips taken
is projected to climb 50 per cent over
the next three decades as a million
more Metro Vancouverites arrive,
all criss-crossing the region to get to
500,000 more jobs.
So planners say the proportion of
trips by transit, cycling and walking
must rise at a much faster rate from
27 per cent now to 50 per cent, while
the share of trips by car falls.
Building more rapid transit lines
is part of the strategy – TransLink
estimates up to $23 billion is needed
to expand the system over 30 years.
The first $5 billion would merely
maintain what already exists.
But another plank in the document
says TransLink should “price roads

and transit for fairness, efficiency and
revenue.”
TransLink strategic planning vicepresident Bob Paddon said road
pricing has been in long-range plans
for 20 years, but it’s now becoming
critical to implement.
Area mayors also want to explore
road pricing, where drivers might
pay more to drive on major routes
depending on the time of day or
severity of congestion.
TransLink’s draft document says
pricing can cut congestion at peak
times while offering users a choice.
“Those who choose to forego a trip,
bundle some trips together, travel at
a less busy time, use a less busy route
or travel by another mode will be
rewarded with savings in time and
money,” it says.
Paddon said TransLink’s new
Compass card system could make it
possible to emulate Washington D.C.,
where subway riders pay based on
both the distance travelled and by the
time of day.
“The farther you go, the more you
pay,” Paddon said. “And if you want
to go at the peak of rush hour you
pay more.”
He said airlines also make passengers pay more for the last seats
as a plane fills up, while offering
discounts to sell seats on underused
routes or at less popular times.
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signals, he suggests, pointing to the
success of the #555 bus over the new
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per cent full – as 1,600 passengers a
day ride over the bridge without paying the new toll.

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knit socks, scarves, hats,
sweaters and a few other
items that she either sent to
relatives or donated to the various church sales that went on
throughout the year.
When she wasn’t reading, she
was knitting.
I guess that explains why we
never had a cat.
I moved from home before I
was out of my teens, so I have
no idea when that changed,
but at some point I remember
noticing that she wasn’t knitting
anymore.
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said she couldn’t because her
fingers were too stiff.
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fingers.
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some rheumatoid arthritis and
it made the knitting difficult
and painful.
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that overuse of her joints for
years had caused the arthritis.
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an umbrella term that covers
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is that they all tend to cause
inflammation in the joints and
pain is the common symptom.
While osteoarthritis is the
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Appia Developments to release second phase at SOLO District

Living among the clouds at Altus
Appia Developments’ SOLO
District will add another gem to the
neighbourhood when it launches sales
of its newest phase on June 22. Altus
will be the tallest building in Burnaby at
550 feet, with office space on the first 14
floors and residential from 200 feet up.
“The views start from the bottom
(residential) floor,” says Appia Sales and
Marketing Manager Lisa Murrell.
SOLO District (which stands for
South Of Lougheed) welcomed Altus
with a preview event on June 15 that
had many potential buyers visit the
SOLO District Presentation Centre
to see what Altus has to offer. With
condominium homes ranging from

approximately 516 to about 1,700
square feet in a variety of floorplans,
it won’t be hard to find your perfect
home. Something that sets Altus apart
are the choices it offers for threebedroom units, which is something
buyers have been asking for and Appia
is happy to be able to provide in this
new phase of SOLO District.
In the homes themselves, you’ll
find imported Italian Armony
Cucine cabinetry and polished
quartz countertops in the kitchens
and bathrooms, along with laminate
flooring in the living areas, nine-foot

living or play space. The master ensuite
features a huge stand-alone claw-foot
tub made for relaxing after a day on the
slopes, along with a gorgeous walk-in
shower with rain shower head.
The kids and even adult guests will
enjoy the bunk room that holds four
bunk beds and plenty of space to
play. A pool table is part of the prize
package, furnished by Coast Spas
Lifestyles. The furniture and accessories
are also part of the home, from Lane
Home Furnishings. The winner will
also receive appliances from Coast
Wholesale Appliances, luxurious
outdoor furnishings from American
Home & Patio, a $2,500 grocery
package from IGA and one year of
house cleaning from Mini Maid.
One of the most impressive parts of
the home is the contemporary glass
walk-in wine cellar in the foyer. A glass

of wine from your own private cellar
will be the perfect way to end your day
on the hill. Faliszewski also notes that
there is an indoor-outdoor fireplace in
the greatroom that you’ll want to curl
up in front of at the end of the day.
“The deck (on the lower floor) wraps
all the way around the outside of the
house,” he says. “You can walk through
the main rooms and then into your
bedroom.”
Tickets for the home can be
purchased online, via phone at 604252-3688 or toll-free at 1-877-946-4663
or at the Fair at the PNE itself between
Aug. 17 and Sept. 2. The winner will be
drawn on Sept. 5. You can preview the
home between July 12 and 14, July 21,
July 28, and Aug. 4.
For more information and to
purchase tickets, visit www.pne.ca/
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‘Perfect for entertaining’

PNE Prize Home an iconic
B.C. tradition
By Kerry Vital

The PNE Prize Home has been
around since 1934 and is an integral
part of the annual summer event. Now,
the 2013 home is showcasing exactly
why everyone loves this lottery.
“We’re really excited about this year’s
home,” says PNE spokesperson Laura
Ballance. “This is the most affordable
home lottery in British Columbia and
there’s a lot of anticipation around it.”
For the second year in a row, the
home is being decorated by interior
designer Jillian Harris. She has starred
on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,
hosted Canada’s Handyman Challenge
and is currently co-hosting Love It or
List It Vancouver.
“Jillian did a fantastic job last year,”
Ballance says. “It’s (wonderful) to have
her back.”
This year’s home is over 3,000 square
feet, designed and built by Britco. After
someone wins it, it will be relocated to
Sun Peaks Resort.
“It’s a fun project for us,” says Tom
Faliszewski, manager of special projects
for Britco. “The Fair at the PNE is
an iconic event in Vancouver, and
the Prize Home is a historic tradtion
synonymous with The Fair.”

The home is built in an open-plan
style, with a large greatroom and
French doors to the exterior decks.
“It’s perfect for entertaining,”
Faliszewski says. “It has a very spacious
feel to it and feels much larger than it
is.”
He’s not exaggerating. With its
10-foot ceilings on the main floor and
nine-foot ceilings on the upper floor,
the home feels incredibly open and airy.
Once relocated, the home will be
right next door to last year’s PNE Prize
Home, also built by Britco. The location
is truly one of the best parts of the
home, since it will feature stunning
views over the ski and snowboard trails,
surrounding mountains and valley.
“We try to do something different
every year,” Faliszewski says. This
year, Britco decided to put the master
bedroom on the main floor, and
include a huge upper deck on the
second floor with a hot tub and a
covered area that Faliszewski says
is almost like a completely separate

The home was designed by interior designer Jillian Harris again this year, and is spectacular as always. Among the features are a contemporary
glass wine cellar, top, an indoor-outdoor fireplace, above with Harris, and a luxurious claw-foot tub in the master bathroom, left.

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SOLO District to change the landscape of Burnaby
SOLO District is perfectly situated for transit, shopping,
education and leisure activities. The Brentwood Skytrain
station is just steps away, along with Brentwood Town Centre.
“There are so many things around here,” Murrell says. “It’s
just perfect.”
The proximity to downtown Vancouver is also one of the
highlights of SOLO District, especially for those looking to
commute or if you’re just in the mood to sample the nightlife.
Homes at Altus start at $293,900. For more information
about Altus and SOLO District, visit www.solodistrict.com or
call 604-298-8800.

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ceilings and a full-size stacking washer/dryer. The bathrooms
also have luxurious soaker tubs (with an enclosed glass shower
in some ensuites) and large porcelain floor tiles and wall tile
tub surround.
All of the homes at SOLO will be heated and cooled via
geothermal heat exchange, which uses stored energy from the
earth and is incredibly efficient. FortisBC notes that buyers will
see great cost savings compared to conventional buildings, and
less maintenance will be required, which will lend homeowners
greater peace of mind.
Part of the appeal is the huge amenity space that Appia is
calling Club 55 with a barbecue area, full kitchen, media area
and billiards and ping-pong tables and generous outdoor deck
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have access to as well, and a multi-sport court on the third
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comprised of four stunning residential towers and over 1,400
homes. Construction is currently ongoing at the first phase,
Stratus, with future phases Cirrus and Aerius to come. The
community will also include Burnaby’s first Whole Foods,
commercial opportunities, office space and tons of green space.
“There are several other exciting anchor tenants to
be announced,” says Murrell. “This is a very, very cool
community.”
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says.
“There’s everything you could possibly need here,” she notes.
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Please don’t hack the hydrangeas
F

ew plants endure
such masochistic
pruning as the
common Mophead
Hydrangea, or H. macrophylla.
The reason being is
that we purchase these
cute, one-gallon plants
of standard varieties
such as ‘Nikko Blue’,
‘Kluis Superba’ and
Gardening
‘Teller Red’ – fully
expecting that they will Mike Lascelle
remain a mere two feet
tall and wide for the rest of their lives.
Several years and three to four feet
later, these same spectacular shrubs that
we’ve nurtured and enjoyed each summer
suddenly get a starring role in The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, leaving little behind in
the way of flowering wood.
What more gardeners should be aware of
are the many compact cultivars of Hydrangea macrophylla: ‘Pia’ (pink, matures at two
feet high and wide); ‘Adria’ (blue, matures
at three feet high and wide); or the CityLine
series (available in a wide range of colours),
which grows to a mere three feet high and
three to four feet wide – so you don’t actually have to hack them into submission.
Your other option is to choose reblooming or remontant types that, despite
a heavy spring pruning, will still flower on
new wood later in the season. This way you
can control the size without losing all the
blooms that you would on Hydrangeas that
only flower on last year’s wood.
The original repeat-bloomer Endless Summer (three to five feet high), is still one of

in gardens prone to hackers. These bear
cone-shaped flowers on new wood (from
midsummer) and have excellent cold hardiness to Zone 3. It is these last two attributes
that makes them such good candidates for
growing in large containers, as well as being much more sun tolerant than standard
Mophead hydrangeas.
Your compact choices here include ‘Bombshell’ (abundant smaller white blooms, 3’
high), Little Lime (lime green flowers, three
to four feet high with pruning) and BOBO
(white fading to pink, three feet high).
The midsummer to autumn blooming
Oakleaf hydrangea (H. quercifolia, Zone 5)
further extends the flowering season and
adds textural interest with its oak-shaped
leaves and fall foliar colours.
‘Little Honey’ (three to four feet high) is
a golden-leaved form that is best grown in
just morning sun (or it may scorch), featuring white cone-shaped flowers and reddishorange autumn tones.
‘PeeWee’ (three to four feet high) bears
white cone-shaped blossoms that fade to
pink, and more intense autumn colours of
burgundy-bronze to a rich maroon-purple.
So now that I’ve given you 10 good reasons (or dwarf cultivar selections) not to
hack your hydrangeas, I expect to hear far
fewer chainsaws come pruning time.
(Clockwise from top left) Endless Summer, Double Delights, Bombshell and Little Lime.
the best, with huge, long-lasting true blue
rounded blossoms, when grown in acidic
soils.
New on the local market this year is the
Double Delights ‘Star Gazer’ (three to four

feet high), with delicate ringed lacecap
blooms of pink florets edged in white, which
flower from summer through to fall.
Hydrangea paniculata, or PeeGee-type hydrangeas, are another useful species to grow

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Entire property has undergone an extensive reconstruction and is truly one of a
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wild play adventure park.

2,173 ﬁnished square feet, 3 fully ﬁnished
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• Amazing river front on Alouette River.
• Currently tree farm lease on fertile generally level
land with good income.
• Great potential home site with river and
mountain views.
• Great land for blueberry, cranberry and other
farm crops.

Jackson Ridge quality built new 2 storey homes with
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Great room open concept or living, dining and family
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parkland & have a beautiful valley and mountain view.

Gorgeous basement style home on a
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bedrooms, this home is a total of 3288
square feet. Stunning Fraser River and
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Close to both elementary and secondary
schools, this home has it all! Almost 4000
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and a gorgeous maple kitchen with
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quality laminate flooring and tastefully
appointed with an oversized moulding
package. Info available via email.

Buy a lot with a view
and build your dream home

Perfect for those who want peace of
mind and a quality home in a secure
neighborhood. Located in exclusive
Hatzic Bench, this gated community is
only 10 lots. With stunning Fraser River &
Valley views, this ranch style design with
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Planned to take advantage of the views
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Fenced rear yard. Hardwood floors,
newer bathrooms & great storage, 3
bathrooms and all appliances. This is a
prime location within the complex and
has a sunny, bright rear yard. Roofs
have been replaced within the past
month. Perfect family oriented townhome,
centrally located within Mission City.

* Subject to change without notice. Limited time offer, see sales staff for details. The developer reserves the right to make modifications to the information contained herein. Prices are subject to change without notice. Renderings are artist renditions only. E.&O.E.

3 bdrms, and two bedroom suite down.
Double garage with lane access. Gas
fireplace in family room and living room.
Lovely patio & sitting area off kitchen.
Vaulted ceiling in living room. Sunken
den on main. 2 piece guest bath on main
floor with skylight.

Split 3 level home with view of Fraser
River from back deck. Walking distance
to downtown, shopping and doctor’s
office. Nice neighbourhood. Roof is 5
years old with newer hot water tank.
Living room with cozy fireplace and a
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The Bentley at
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mountains. open floor plan, balcony,
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Parks, trails, recreation, shopping,
schools and community rec centre.
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Community Calendar

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ommunity Calendar lists events in
Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Notices are free to local non-profit groups
courtesy of The News. Drop off details to
22328 119 Ave., fax to 604-463-4741 or
e-mail newsroom@mapleridgenews.com
at least a week before the event. Include a
contact name and number. (No submissions
by phone.) Listings appear as space permits.
For guaranteed publication, ask our classified department at 604-467-1122 about
non-profit rates.
Friday, June 21
• Ridge Meadows Hospice Society is
holding its Summer Solstice Pub Night at
the Witch of Endor (22648 Dewdney Trunk)
starting at 7 p.m. The night will feature
belly dancers, silent auction and more to
raise funds for the society. Tickets are $20
and include a burger and a beverage. The
belly dancers will be performing their
first set at approximately 8:30 p.m. and
the second set at 9:15 p.m. with crowd
participation.
Saturday, June 22
• Fraser River All Nations Aboriginal
Society is celebrating National Aboriginal
Day at the Haney Farmers Market from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join in a celebration of
traditional cultural activities, entertainment, arts and crafts, vendor displays. All
at the Haney Farmers Market in Memorial
Peace Park on 224th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
www.haneyfarmersmarket.org
• Webster’s Corners Day from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. at the Webster’s Corner Park,
located near the corner of 256 Street and
Dewdney Trunk Road. There will be kid’s
games, a heritage tea social, a hot dog

Do you fit
into one
of these
categories?

stand, artisans draw, historic display, draws
and a pie-eating contest at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 26
• Kids in grades four and up are invited
to the Maple Ridge Public Library for a
Wacky Wednesday Summer Pizza Party at
3:30 p.m. For more information, please
call the Maple Ridge Public Library at
604-467-7417.
• Cinema Politica presents the
documentary Salmon Confidential, a new
film on the government coverup of what
is killing B.C.’s wild salmon. From 7-9 p.m.
at municipal hall council chambers (11995
Haney Pl.) For information contact Oosha
at 604-466-3144 or ridgemeadows@
cinemapolitica.org.
Thursday, June 27
• Learn to lead the way with Toastmasters. The group meets every Thursday
evening at Pitt Meadows City Hall, 12007
Harris Rd., from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. For more
details call Andrew Thompson at 604460-0339, or visit the website blueheron.
toastmastersclubs.org.
Friday, June 28
• Are you gay, bisexual or just not
sure? Need a safe place to talk? Hominum
Fraser Valley is an informal discussion
and support group to help gay, bi-sexual
and questioning men with the challenges
of being married, separated or single.
Meeting is 7:30 p.m. For information and
location, call Art 604-462-9813 or Don
604-329-9760.
Saturday, June 29
• The Downtown Maple Ridge Busi-

ness Improvement Association is holding
an outdoor summer market on the last
Saturday of the summer months in Memorial Peace Park (224th St.). The vendors are
from downtown businesses, and they’re
out to prove that you can find anything
you need in Maple Ridge. It will be held
in conjunction with the Haney Farmers’
Market. There will be live music, food,
kids’ activities and entertainment in a fun
street-market atmosphere. The fist summer market will be June 29, from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. Call 467-2420 for details.
• Original Art: The unique artwork of
Christopher James Guy at Blenz Coffee in
Maple Ridge (22442 Dewdney Trunk Rd.)
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. See christopherjamesguy.com or call Guy at 604-762-1854.
Monday, July 1
• Hockey Day in Pitt Meadows will see
street hockey for enthusiasts of all ages,
featuring a three-on-three tournament,
and skills competition from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. at the Pitt Meadows Family Rec
Centre at 12027 Harris Rd., in the Youth
Parking Lot. Register your team at www.
PMAConline.com before June 22.
• The RCMP Spurs program hosts a
book sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front
of Maple Ridge Municipal Hall on 224th.
Soft covers are 50 cents and hardcovers
$1. Spurs is a program for youth who are
interested in a career in policing.
• Vacation Bible School will be offered
from July 1-5 at the High Way Church,
(21746 Lougheed Hwy.) from 9 a.m.
to noon, for ages 4-11. The theme will
be Kingdom Rock. For information call
604-467-5959 or email highwaychurch@
telus.net.

UBC Thunderbirds all-star guard Doug Plumb will be graduating to the professional ranks of Europe, having caught on with one of the top Hangarian teams.

Doug Plumb’s outstanding CIS career has
won him a spot on a European pro team
After a stellar university basketball career, UBC
Thunderbird Doug Plumb has signed a contract to
play professionally in Europe.
Plumb, who is from Pitt Meadows and still has
family here, will join Zalakerámia ZTE KK of the
Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A, the top league in Hungary.
Basketball has been such a huge part of Plumb’s
life, and he didn’t want it to be over.
“I had more sleepless nights this year, not knowing what I was going to do,” he admitted.
To be paid to play basketball is a dream for any
college player, but most leagues limit the number
of import players allowed, and those spots generally go to American players coming out of NCAA
programs.
“For a little, skinny white kid from Pitt Meadows
to get this experience is pretty rare. I’m excited.”
His new club has won four national titles, with

the most recent coming in 2010. It is located in Zalaegerszeg, a city of about 62,000 people.
“I’m very excited to be continuing my career with
ZTE KK,” said Plumb. “The organization has a rich
history of success and I am looking forward to
helping them compete and contend for the Hungarian league title.”
Plumb scored 1326 points in 97 non-conference,
regular season and playoff appearances with UBC
for an average of 13.7 points a game. He also
grabbed 457 rebounds (4.7 per game) over his time
with the T-Birds.
This past season, the 6’4” guard was a first team
Canada West all-star and a second team CIS AllCanadian, after leading his squad to a conference
championship and a berth to the CIS Final Eight in
Ottawa. He averaged 14.9 points and 5.2 rebounds
a game in his last season.
The 25-year-old has studied psychology. He is
hoping to one day join the coaching ranks, and
said having professional experience can only help
his resume.

Plumb also played college ball with Fraser Valley
(CIS) and Minnesota State (NCAA) before becoming a Thunderbird.
“We are thrilled for Doug that he will continue
his basketball career as a professional athlete,” said
UBC head coach Kevin Hanson. “He has landed
on a top team in a great league. He has worked exceptionally hard to get to this stage of his career
and we are all very excited for him. We wish him
the best as he enters this next stage of his life.”
Plumb joins several other UBC graduates already
in the professional ranks. Nathan Yu (Hong Kong),
Alex Murphy (Denmark), Matt Rachar (Austria),
Kamar Burke and Josh Whyte (both NBL-Canada)
are all representing UBC and the CIS in basketball
leagues around the world.
“I would like to ride this out as long as I can –
keep playing ball, and see the world,” said Plumb.
“It doesn’t get any better than that for me.”

Teen cyclist continues to improve, and on a winning streak
Maggie Coles-Lyster, 14, of Maple
Ridge, has been racing to success
across B.C. and the Pacific Northwest
this season.
She has competed well above her
Under-15 age class, against Senior
women over 19, with her most recent
victories earned May 31 through June
2 in Victoria at the Robert Cameron
Law Cycling Series. She won all three
competitions in the stage race.
Coles-Lyster’s significant improvements this season are due to physical
and mental factors, like being another
year older, fitter, and more experi-

enced. But the young speedster credits
her invigorated drive to her late coach,
Jeremy Storie, who tragically passed
away in February.
In fact, she dedicated this past weekend’s success in Victoria to Storie,
who always encouraged his athletes
to make the competitions more exciting for racers and spectators alike by
animating the races with attacks and
gutsy tactics.
Coles-Lyster took her coach and
mentor’s words to heart and puts them
into practice in every race she enters.
“If she’s in the race, everyone knows

Maggie’s going to attack,” said ColesLyster’s father, Barry Lyster, who owns
Maple Ridge’s Local Ride Bike Shop.
And attack she did, relentlessly, during both Saturday’s Westhills Cycling
Classic road race and Sunday’s Bastion
Square Grand Prix.
Her efforts in each race succeeded
in splintering the field and putting the
odds in her favour at the finish. In the
40km road race, Coles-Lyster reached
the line first with only one other rider
in contact, whom she craftily outsprinted.
In Sunday’s Bastion Square Grand

Prix, her hard pace and aggressive attacks pared the group down to four
riders and she won the final sprint after 15 laps of the challenging circuit.
In Friday evening’s 5km Rumble
individual time trial, the only possible
tactic was all-out pedaling as she raced
against the clock and powered out a
personal best time and the win.
Coles-Lyster continued to train hard
and earned another impressive result at the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage
Race, May 18-19, in Enumclaw, WA.
She competed in a strong field of Cat 4
women to finish third overall.

Atoms
silver in
final
tourney
The 2002 Ridge Meadows Roughnecks hockey
team completed their
spring schedule for the
2013 spring season by
winning a silver medal at
the Valley Cup in north
Surrey.
The Atom Roughnecks
played tough teams from
Semiahmoo, Burnaby,
Vancouver and Langley,
losing two of the four
opening
round-robin
games and finishing
third in their division.
In the semi-final game
against the EHS Knights
from Semiahmoo. After
going down by a goal,
they scored five unanswered, securing their
spot in the gold medal
game.
Their opponents in the
gold medal game was the
Valley Chiefs, a strong,
Langley-based team that
went undefeated in the
tournament, and had
earlier beaten Roughnecks by a wide margin.
Having no expectations of winning, the
Roughnecks played their
hearts out, making this
their game of the season.
They held their opponents at bay with great
bravery in blocking shots
and with some amazing
reaction saves by goalie
Justin Falconer.
Mid-way
through
the second period, the
Roughnecks gave up a
power play goal. A second goal late in the third
period sealed matters,
and Roughnecks had to
be content with silver.
This result adds to the
team’s silver medal at the
Canlan Spring Showdown and gold at the
Steveston Meltdown.
Goalie Justin Falconer
made 38 saves in the gold
medal game alone and
was ably supported by
Evan Jonsen in a number
of other games.
Through six games
the Roughnecks found
the net 26 times. Winger
Vincent Timperio contributed the most points
with four goals and five
assists, each of Alex
Trosthiem, Dawson Ignatieff and Kyle Sackmann contributed five
goals, while Caleb Douglas helped create seven
goals.

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Sports

Pushing stroller an under-appreciated calorie burner

T

he likelihood
for women to
get the minimum exercise required
to stay healthy after
delivering a baby is less
than similar women
without kids.
A study in the Journal
of Science and Medicine
in Sport cites this tendency and highlights
the importance of losing postpartum weight
to avoid long-term
problems like obesity,
cardiovascular risk factors and diabetes.
Unfortunately there
may be unrealistic
expectations from the
media as celebrities
seem to get back to
pre-pregnancy weight
in very short order and
societal pressures of a
mother to be able to
‘have it all’ don’t help.
But getting exercise
and staying as fit as
possible is healthy for
the mother, gives her
more energy and is
ultimately healthy for
the baby.
A study done by
researchers at the University of Wisconsin investigated the effect of
walking while pushing

a baby stroller in order
pushing a stroller comto determine how much pared to walking alone,
it might contribute to
but the effect was more
the health and
dramatic than
fitness of the
expected.
mother.
The study
This might
found that exbe an underercise intensity
appreciated
and calorie
activity that
burn were apseems munproximately 18
dane and if
percent higher
some mothers
when walking
are unable to
at 3 MPH and
do much of
20 per cent
their stanhigher when
Kinected
dard exercise Kerry Senchyna
walking with a
routines at the
stroller at 3.5
gym, it could
mph.
be a valuable tool to use
Keep in mind that for
to get back on track.
many people 3.5 MPH
The study tested
might be considered a
a number of young
moderate to brisk walk.
women by performParticipants burned
ing a maximal exercise
6.2 calories per minute
test on a treadmill
while pushing a stroller
monitoring heart rate,
at 3 mph, and then 7.4
oxygen consumption
calories per minute
and perceived exertion
while pushing a stroller
(how hard they ‘felt’
at 3.5 mph. The study
they were working).
shows that level of
Then they had partici- intensity works out to
pants walk at different
burning between 370 to
speeds with a 35-pound 450 calories per hour,
weight (simulating
which is comparable
a one year-old) in a
to mowing the lawn or
stroller and measured
riding a bike at 10 mph.
the same exercise variWalking uphill pushables. Walking burned
ing a stroller increased
more calories when
the subject’s heart rates

by about six percent
with every 2.5 percent
increase in uphill grade.
The researchers tested
uphill grades of 2.5, 5
and 7.5 percent grades.
The values obtained in
the study were almost
twice as high as previous values published in
the standardized guides
and tables. They had
published walking with
a stroller as 2.5 METS
when in fact it is between 4 and 5 METS.
Fitness guidelines
recommend that people
exercise between 55
and 60 per cent of their
maximum heart rate
in order to improve
cardiovascular fitness
and will also contribute
weight loss as well.
Pushing a stroller
with a baby on flat
ground at 3.5 MPH
meets those criteria,
and walking on a hill or
running would increase
the exercise benefits
even more.
As far as losing
weight is concerned,
there are other things
you can do to help.
An exclusively breastfed baby needs around
500 to 800 calories a

day for healthy growth
and development.
Sustaining a baby on
breast milk means you
are putting out your
own calories just by
feeding your child, and
the baby is obtaining
vital nutrients and getting important physical
contact.
Adjusting your dietary intake can help a
great deal as well.
When you were

pregnant, you might
have adjusted your
eating habits to support
your baby’s growth and
development. After
pregnancy, proper nutrition is still important
– especially if you’re
breast-feeding.
Getting outdoors and
walking (or running)
with your baby in a
stroller can deliver
much-needed exercise
as well as provide the

baby and you with an
outing.
As always, stay in
touch with your family
doctor for direction and
guidance on all health
matters.
Kerry Senchyna holds a
bachelor of science degree in
kinesiology and is owner of
West Coast Kinesiology
in Maple Ridge
(westcoastkinesiology.com).

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on June 9, 2013 at age 85. He
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CRAMPTON, Robert
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